 | An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Reading Book for Beginners by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge
Buy used from: £4.99 Better than the 'How to read...' type of manual, because it's in hieroglyphics and suggests you've already made considerable progress.
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 | Annotations to "Finnegans Wake" by Professor Roland McHugh
Buy used from: £24.99 Lots of people leave 'Finnegans Wake' lying around and it doesn't fool anyone - but the even bigger annotations may at least plant a suspicion amongst your friends that you're actually reading it.
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 | Reading Japanese Financial Newspapers by Association for Japanese Language Teaching
Buy used from: £80.09 Speaks for itself: the worlds of international high finance and the exotic Orient merge to create an aura of success and inscrutability. Mostly in Japanese.
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 | Ethics (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by B. de Spinoza
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £6.74 Difficult stuff from the lens-grinder of Amsterdam.
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 | Introduction to Classical Nahuatl by J. Richard Andrews
Buy new: £48.93 / Used from: £66.32 Talking Nahuatl to the Old Aztecs on Popacatapetl - that takes some botl!
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 | European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages: (With a new epilogue by Peter Godman) (Bollingen Series (General)) by Ernst Robert Curtius
Buy new: £26.05 / Used from: £31.97 Strongly implies to the gullible and/or unwary that you a) read literature, and b) read it in Latin.
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 | The Iliad by Homer
Buy new: £8.06 / Used from: £2.13 The ultimate translation of the archetypal work of ancient literature. Make sure you poo-poo all other translations before and since if challenged.
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 | The Glass Bead Game (Vintage Classics) by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £3.86 Actually anything by Hesse will do, but this one's heftier than most of his others.
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 | "The Two Noble Kinsmen" (Arden Shakespeare: Third) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.99 One of Shakespeare's last plays - he co-wrote it with Fletcher and it wasn't even attributed to him till relatively recently. Breaks the ice at parties.
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 | Learning to Look at Paintings by Mary Acton
Buy used from: £9.00 Speaks louder than a dozen large-format books of famous artists' works. A great little book! And even better, it's bright green!!
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